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Deep Purple World Tour 2016

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Associated album
  
Now What?! (2013)

No. of shows
  
32

Legs
  
5

Location
  
North America Asia Europe

Start date
  
9 May 2016 (2016-05-09)

End date
  
31 July 2016 (2016-07-31)

The Deep Purple World Tour 2016 was a worldwide 2016 concert tour by British hard rock band Deep Purple which began on 9 May 2016 in Sapporo, Japan and ended on 31 July 2016 in Mosbach, Germany. It was the continuation of their previous tour entitled Now What?! World Tour promoting their latest studio album to date, Now What?!, released on 26 April 2013.

Contents

Line-up

Deep Purple
  • Ian Gillan – lead vocals
  • Steve Morse – guitar
  • Roger Glover – bass
  • Ian Paice – drums
  • Don Airey – keyboards

    • Typical setlist

    Main set
    1. Intro: Gustav Holst's "The Planets, Op 32, First movement: Mars, The Bringer Of War"
    2. "Highway Star" (from Machine Head)
    3. "Bloodsucker" (from Deep Purple In Rock)
    4. "Hard Lovin' Man" (from Deep Purple in Rock)
    5. "Strange Kind of Woman" (from Fireball)
    6. "Vincent Price" (from Now What?!)
    7. "Contact Lost" (from Bananas, 2003)
    8. "Uncommon Man" (from Now What?!)
    9. "Steve Morse Guitar Solo"
    10. "The Well-Dressed Guitar" (from Rapture of the Deep – Tour Edition)
    11. "Lazy" (from Machine Head)
    12. "Demon's Eye (from Fireball)
    13. "Hell to Pay" (from Now What?!) (not played at all shows)
    14. "Don Airey Keyboard Solo"
    15. "Perfect Strangers" (from Perfect Strangers)
    16. "Space Truckin'" (from Machine Head)
    17. "Smoke on the Water" (from Machine Head)
    Encore
    1. "Green Onions" / "Hush" (Billy Joe Royal cover) (from Shades of Deep Purple, 1968)
    2. "Roger Glover bass solo"
    3. "Black Night" (from Deep Purple in Rock)

    References

    Deep Purple World Tour 2016 Wikipedia
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